Tomorrow, @JColeNC's new album will come into the world:

On Friday, April 20 , J. Cole will release his long anticipated fifth album KOD . The record will be the follow-up to 2016’s 4 Your Eyez Only , which, besides being critically celebrated as the best rap album of the year, also had the third-largest sales week for an album in 2016. Today, Cole shared the cover art and tracklist of its successor. The line, “This album is in no way intended to glorify addiction” , is printed high in the foreground across the cover, addressing the drug imagery that composes the artwork. Besides that, the project is notable for only featuring one other artist, Kill Edward , who journalist Andres Tardio believes to be Cole himself: J. Cole’s ‘KOD’ features kiLL edward. My first instinct said this is probably an alter ego. This year, an artist named kiLL edward released a song called “Tidal Wave (just a little reference).” Guess what? Voice is st...